Search Results: Titles starting with B from Calix Books

Worswick, Clark; Berenice Abbott and Eugene Atget- Photos of Atget selected and printed by Berenice Abbott of Atget's photos from the 1920's. Arena Publications, Santa Fe, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Stated First edition. 163pp. Small 4to. 100 black and white photos by Atget, many bought by Abbott in Paris in 1927 and reprinted by her. Essays by B. Abbott on "The World of Atget" and by Clark Worswick on "Abbott & Atget." A wonderful book with excellent reproduction. Beautiful examples of Atget's work many images never published before. Details how Abbott started her own career and how she saved his photos and negatives and printed them in Paris in the 20's and 30's. Dust jacket is protected with a Brodart archival cover.

Halberstam, David J. (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007). The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House (1972). Later printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 688 pages. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author in 2001. Dust jacket has small chips and tears at edges. Contents clean and tight. Along with: The Best and the Brightest (2001) first Modern Library printing. signature by David Halberstam on the title page (2001) unread, pristine, collector condition. Washington and the Kennedy/Johnson era a brilliant, in-depth portraits of the men who came to power in the Kennedy administration: Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, George Ball, William Westmoreland and Maxwell Taylor. As seen through the lens of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist of his time.1960s, US Foreign Policy, JFK, LBJ, Robert McNamera, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland. Both editions signed at the same time. A rare combination set both in Fine condition.

Philip Greely Brown (1855-1934) was an avid book collector and amature historian and albeit, publisher. He helped collect and published his brother's memoirs on the settlement of the West. His brother, Clifford Brown served under a variety of leaders, some quite famous. This is a bibliography of all of James Russell Lowell' works up to 1906. Mr. Brown would have used this text to put together a definitive collection of Russell's works. His entire collection was partilly donated and the rest sold at auction in 1935. The book is in excellent condition with no dust cover and some sunning to the spine. It is interior lightly toned and tight binding. The title is: A Bibliography of James Russell Lowell. Compiled by George Willis Cooke. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin and Company MDCCCCVI (1906). This copy is number 484 out of 530 copies printed and bound. A first and only edition. A very nice signed bookplate of Philip Greely Brown. He was a graduate of Bowdoin College (Maine)
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Beughem, Cornelius Van. Bibliographia historica, chronologica et geographica novissima, perpetuo continuanda, sive Conspectus primus catalogi librorum historicorum quotquot ab anno MDCLI per universam Europam, typis prodierunt. First Edition, Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1685.
12mo (128 x 72 mm). Contemporary (Austrian or Bohemian?) sprinkled calf, spine richly gilt. Some separation at spine but holding very nicely. Initials J. D. with date 1865, with additional inscription of "voy: m. melanges Jhin and de liet pan virginal de marville f p 23 p 323 ed 1725"
Beughem's most substantial single compilation, "in which he continued his attempt at a classified universal bibliography of works published since 1650. This time Beughem reached nearly 800 pages, in which he describes the works of nearly 2,500 writers. A substantial part of the book, however, is taken up by a so-called Museum Beughemianum, which would seem to be by many years the first iconography ... with a list of portraits in marbles,… Read More

Chippenham, Wiltshire: for EMO Press by Antony Rowe Ltd.,, 1990. Prepared for the British Academy. Octavo. A detailed bibliography of publications on Economics from 1751 to 1775 that includes many of the controversial issues surrounding taxation, the state, the Monarchy etc. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. Spine a little faded, some small spots to lower board and a scratch to the upper board. An excellent copy. Reprint of the 1935 first edition.

Bartlett, John Russell, Bibliography of Rhode Island, a Catalogue of Books and Other Publications Relating to the State of Rhode Island, with Notes, Historical, Biographical and Critical; Providence: State of Rhode Island, 1864. original cloth-backed boards. Rhode Island. 8vo. original cloth-backed boards. 287 pages. First edition (Besterman 5391). Two page preface by Bartlett followed by the bibliography.

R.R. Bowker Co. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Very Good First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition bound in green cloth. Bookplate of F. M. O'Brien; Antiquarian Bookdealer. A compendium of information relating to the production and distribution of books.